EPIC, Code programming error at 0000

[shorton]

Hi guys. Thanks for the time to give suggestions but as I mentioned in the original post I tried every debug step on melabs page. Including:

- On both PC's I applied the polling registry edit. It had no visible effect.

- As for the 7407 I wouldn't think it would work sporatically. But I changed it to be sure, did not help.

re: the other thread, no suggestions there helped.

error @0000 is often caused by a too low MCLR/Vpp voltage while programming, it should be close to 13V. I would suggest you to measure it,

See original post. Not only did I measure it, I adjusted Reg2 to be exactly 13.5.

0.1uF capacitor installed as close as possible of your PIC Vcc line

You mean add one to the EPIC? I'm not doing ICP, just using the EPIC and ZIF adapter.

Just to avoid confusion, let's ignore the desktop issue. I'll deal with that later. Sticking to the laptop, all above applies, all debug suggestions tried. Using the laptop I can reliably read the 16F628A, but it will only program it sporatically. I don't change anything in meProg, I just click on burn, then OK on the ...0000 error, over and over. Eventually it will burn one.